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The efficacy and safety of Jin's three-needle therapy vs. placebo acupuncture on anxiety symptoms in patients with post-stroke anxiety: A study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
This study firstly verifies the real effectiveness of JTNT. Besides, the changes in serum indexes on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis (HPA axis) are observed dynamically by the Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay (ELISA). The activation of different brain regions by JTNT is recorded using resting functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI). Therefore, we can provide more practical and powerful evidence-based medical evidence for clinical decisions.MethodThis is a 16 week parallel, single-blind, random, controlled trial, including baseline, 4 weeks of treatment, and 12 weeks of follow-up. A total of 114 participant...
Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry - September 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

Why Acupuncture Is Going Mainstream in Medicine
When the opioid addiction crisis began to surge in the U.S. about a decade ago, Dr. Medhat Mikhael spent a lot of time talking to his patients about other ways to heal pain besides opioids, from other types of medications to alternative treatments. As a pain management specialist at MemorialCare Orange Coast Medical Center in Fountain Valley, Calif., he didn’t anticipate leaving behind the short-term use of opioids altogether, since they work so well for post-surgical pain. But he wanted to recommend a remedy that was safer and still effective. That turned out to be acupuncture. “Like any treatment, acupuncture...
Source: TIME: Health - April 29, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Millard Tags: Uncategorized healthscienceclimate medicine Source Type: news

Acupuncture for insomnia after ischemic stroke: an assessor-participant blinded, randomized controlled trial
CONCLUSION: Acupuncture appears to be efficacious, in terms of improving insomnia, related quality of life, and affective symptoms, for patients with ischemic stroke.TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: ChiCTR-IIC-16008382 (Chinese Clinical Trial Registry).PMID:35317665 | DOI:10.1177/09645284221077106
Source: Acupuncture in Medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society - March 23, 2022 Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Yan Cao Yin-Jie Yan Jian-Yang Xu Abulikemu Liwayiding Yi-Ping Liu Xuan Yin Li-Xing Lao Zhang-Jin Zhang Shi-Fen Xu Source Type: research

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